1. Macbeth Appearance vs. Reality
By: Aspen, Benjamin, Lea, Madi

2. Act 1 Scene 4 Pg. 29
“ Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.”
Appearance: Macbeth wants to conceal his dark thoughts and actions by seeming good.
Reality: Macbeth has descended into dark, selfish ways to obtain power.

3. Act 1 Scene 7 Pg. 45
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
Appearance: Macbeth is carefree and doesn’t have anything to hide.
Reality: Macbeth knows that he is planning to kill Duncan later but can’t let anyone suspect this.

4. Act 2 Scene 1 Pg. 51
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.”
Appearance: A bloody dagger is floating in front of Macbeth.
Reality: The dagger is not controlling his actions and isn’t floating.
Foreshadow of the murder to come

5. Act 2 Scene 3 Pg. 67
“Oh, gentle lady, ‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a women’s ear, Would murder as it fell.”
Appearance: Lady Macbeth is a women which means she should remain pure and abstain from hearing evil things.
Reality: Lady Macbeth craves masculinity and is the mastermind behind the first murder.

6. Act 3 Scene 2 Pg. 93
“Sleek o’er your rugged looks. Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight.”
Appearance: Macbeth is a warm and welcoming host.
Reality: He is planning with Lady Macbeth to kill Duncan.

7. Hush. Just smile and wave
Act 3 Scene 2 Pg. 93
“And make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.”
Appearance: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth will appear happy to others.
Reality: They are actually putting up a front to disguise the guilt inside from their murders.
Hush. Just smile and wave
Do you think they know?

8. Act 4 Scene 2 Pg. 135
“ Sirrah, your father’s dead. And what will you do now? How will you live?”
Appearance: Lady Macduff tells her son her father is dead and that they must protect themselves.
Reality: Macduff has fled to England but is not dead.

9. Act 4 Scene 3 Pg. 143
“ Black Macbeth will seem pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my confine less harms.”
Appearance: Evil Macbeth will appear holy compared to how Malcolm describes himself.
Reality: Malcolm isn’t actually evil and was just saying so to test Macduff’s loyalty to Scotland.

10. Act 5 Scene 5 Pg.179
“ As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought the wood began to move.”
Appearance: The trees seem to be walking on their own.
Reality: The English army is approaching the castle using tree branches as camouflage.

11. Act 5 Scene 8 Pg. 185
“ And let the angel whom thou still hast served tell the Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped.”
Appearance: Macbeth believes he cannot be harmed by Macduff since he thinks he is born from a women which matches the prophesy.
Reality: Macduff was born of a caesarian section so he CAN kill Macbeth!